InterMapper DataCenter

Overview

InterMapper DataCenter (IMDC) is a stand-alone collection of services used alongside InterMapper. Currently, this includes the InterMapper Authentication Server (IMAuth).

IMAuth allows you to authenticate users against a wide variety of directory servers, including LDAP, Active Directory, Open Directory, Radius, IAS, Kerberos and others. Read the InterMapper Authentication Server Tech Note for more details.

Installing the server

Install InterMapper 4.6 and, if desired, InterMapper RemoteAccess 4.6. You can retrieve them from the InterMapper Release Page..
Download the InterMapper DataCenter package for your operating system from the InterMapper Release Page.. This will install IMDC along with the IMAuth service. The package will be installed to "/usr/local/imdc" on Mac OS X and UNIX systems, and "Program Files\InterMapper\dwf" on Microsoft Windows.

The installer will automatically register IMDC as a startup service on most operating systems.

Windows: IMDC will be registered as a Windows Service, and can be controlled from the Services Control Panel. It will automatically start after installation and on system startup.

Mac OS X: IMDC will be registered as a launchd Launch Daemon. It will automatically start after installation and on system startup.

Linux/Unix: Links will be created in init.d and the proper rc runlevels. The daemon will automatically start after installation and on system startup. It can be controlled using the init.d 'imdc' script for your system, with the standard start and stop commands.

IMDC will automatically create a user and group called 'intermapper' ('intermap' on Solaris) on installation. This user is created without a shell, without a home, and unable to login. IMDC will start as this user, ensuring that it only has permission to modify a limited set of configuration files.

If you would like to view the IMDC or IMAuth log files, you can either use the IMDC web admin panel (explained further below), or you can add yourself to the intermapper group, at which point you will have read access to the files (/usr/local/imdc/log/*.log).

Starting and stopping the server

Windows: You can use the services control panel to start and stop IMDC.

Mac OS X: You can use the /usr/local/imdc/sbin/imdc script with 'start' and 'stop' parameters to start and stop IMDC.

Linux/Unix: You can use the /usr/local/imdc/sbin/imdc script with 'start' and 'stop' parameters to start and stop IMDC.

Configuring IMDC

Before you can use IMDC, you need to configure it. To do this, open a web browser and navigate to: https://localhost:8182 while IMDC is running. On Windows you can simply go to Start Menu > All Programs > InterMapper > InterMapper DataCenter and click on Configure Server. A short wizard will walk you through the steps needed to set up IMDC.

Configuring IMAuth